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By Aaron Blake Aaron Blake Senior political reporter, writing for The Fix Email Bio Follow May 22 at 12:57 PM President Trump held a supposedly impromptu news conference Tuesday that nonetheless included a prepared placard on the lectern and handouts for reporters. During the event, he declared that he would no longer work with Democrats on an infrastructure deal that probably wasn’t going to happen anyway until they stopped investigating him.
Despite that, we’re setting records with the economy, with jobs. We’re the most — most people employed today that we’ve ever had in the history of our country. We have the best unemployment numbers that we’ve had in the history of our country — in some cases, 51 years, but, generally, in the history of our country. Companies are moving back in. Things are going well.
Nearly 500 search warrants. Think of that, a search warrant. Did you ever see a search warrant before? Neither did I. This was over 500 search warrants. They would have loved to have said we colluded. They would have loved it. These people were out to get us, the Republican Party and President Trump. They were out to get us. This was a one-sided, horrible thing.
So of the three calls that were so horrible, that he had a meeting and he called me and then he had the meeting after and he made two more calls — and they were written about like this little — little lines, couple of lines. Nobody wanted to admit it. This whole thing was a takedown attempt at the president of the United States. And honestly, you ought to be ashamed of yourselves for the way you report it so dishonestly. Not all of you, but many of you — the way you report it.
The Wall Street Journal just wrote today, just a little while ago I saw it, “Mr. Mueller wasn’t obstructed in any way.” This is the Wall Street Journal editorial today. “Mr. Mueller wasn’t obstructed in any way. His copious report” — copious, 434 pages, now they want to interview all of the same people again.
So, when you look at all of the transparency, when you look at all I’ve done — and I will tell you, my lawyers say “You don’t have to do this; you can use presidential privilege. You don’t have to let your lawyers and all of your staff testify. You can use presidential privilege, sir. Would you recommend it?”
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